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This just might be my favorite movie now, so I thought I'd leave my take about the movie as a metaphor, and why I think it's one of very few Lovecraftian movies that's actually worthy of being called Lovecraftian. I think the main theme is the dreadful idea of there being people who are doomed but past the point where no one else will know about their suffering: of course Simon trapped in the iron lung never to return from the blood ocean, the previous convict whose fate is only ever seen by Simon because it was recorded, the people who were abandoned to become Ellie, and even the Quiet Rapture itself because of how it isolates humanity to die in space. Like most good cosmic horror, it carries the implication that there are hidden dark corners of reality that we could stumble into any moment, but that, by their very nature, make sure no one will be able to save us or know about it.

Simon is driven by survival, and he'll do anything for it, but it doesn't matter. Even Ellie seems to change her mind from wanting to share the Light with humanity, to wanting to hide the knowledge of it and Simon's fate. His encounter with the light is very... obfuscated... but it feels kinda like a negotiation, like a last bid for survival; but Ellie won't allow it. It's hard to know whether it's the light of salvation or the light at the end of the tunnel, and that ambiguity is what makes that scene absolute cinema.

(Personally, I love Mineplex and think this is ridiculous, but I wanted to be the first to drop this here, so here ya go)

This is an absolute joke.

You promised the entire community that Mineplex would open today at 2:00 PM EST. It is now well past that time, and the servers are still completely locked down for the general public. Instead of a functional, accessible launch, the only people actually getting through the gates are the pay-to-win crowd who dropped cash for priority access.

The Reality Check

Broken Promises: You set a specific, highly anticipated deadline and failed to meet it.

Pay-to-Win Bias: Locking out your core player base while rolling out the red carpet for big spenders is a slap in the face to everyone who has supported Mineplex.

Destroyed Trust: This completely kills the hype and immediately alienates the community right at launch.

"You can't rebuild a legendary brand by treating your regular player base like second-class citizens."

Fix the server stability, cut the blatant favoritism, and open the network for everyone immediately. We expect a direct explanation and a real solution now, not hours from now.

So this is a thing that can happen, apparently. I've managed to work around the issue, but since I haven't found any other mentions of anything like this on this sub or the official forum, I'm leaving this here for whoever might run into this in the future:

Along the side edges of the screen side of the top cover that came with my Framework 13 (AMD Ryzen 7640) DIY edition, the small built-in metal pieces that are intended to hold the bezel's alignment fins seem to have been fused during manufacturing, and instead of leaving a thin channel for the fins to go down into, they block the channel and prevent the bezel from being able to sit flush with the side. It would leave a gap no matter what, since there is nowhere for the alignment fins to go.

My solution was just to cut off the alignment fins from the left and right sides of the bezel.